{"product_id":"riffs-and-relations-by-adrienne-l-childs-9780847866649","title":"Riffs and Relations","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRiffs and Relations: African-American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition\u003c\/em\u003e presents works by African-American artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries together with works by the early-twentieth-century European artists with whom they engaged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlack artists have investigated, interrogated, invaded, entangled, annihilated, or immersed themselves in the aesthetics, symbolism, and ethos of European art for more than a century. The powerful push and pull of this relationship constitutes a distinct tradition for many African-American artists who source the master narratives of art history to critique, embrace, or claim their own space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking catalogue—accompanying a major exhibition at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.—connects the work of artists such as Romare Bearden with Pablo Picasso; Renee Cox and Robert Colescott with Edouard Manet; Norman Lewis with Paul Klee; and Leonardo Drew with Piet Mondrian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume explores how blackness has often been conceived from the standpoint of these international connections and presents the divergent and complex works born of these important dialogues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47253504000236,"sku":"9780847866649","price":135.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/23935183482489.jpg?v=1769472787","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/riffs-and-relations-by-adrienne-l-childs-9780847866649","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}